pend the intervening time?"
"How, Madam?" he replied; "why just as I intend to spend it now. I
should preach this night at Gloucester, and again at five to-morrow
morning. After that I should ride to Tewkesbury, preach in the
afternoon, and meet the societies in the evening. I should then repair
to friend Martin's house, who expects to entertain me, converse and pray
with the family as usual, retire to my room at ten o'clock, commend
myself to my heavenly Father, lie down to rest, and wake up in glory."
This is the right attitude for the Christian. The old cry must not fade
from our lips, nor the old hope from our heart: _Maran atha_, "our Lord
cometh." But meanwhile He hath given to every man his work; and we may
be sure there is no preparation for His coming like the faithful doing
of the appointed task. "Blessed is that servant whom His Lord when He
cometh shall find so doing."

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CONCERNING THE JUDGMENT

"I often have a kind of waking dream; up one road the image of
a man decked and adorned as if for a triumph, carried up by
rejoicing and exulting friends, who praise his goodness and
achievements; and, on the other road, turned back to back to
it, there is the very man himself, in sordid and squalid
apparel, surrounded not by friends but by ministers of
justice, and going on, while his friends are exulting, to his
certain and perhaps awful judgment."--R.W. CHURCH.

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XV

CONCERNING THE JUDGMENT

"_When the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the
angels with Him, then shall He sit on the throne of His glory:
and before Him shall be gathered all the nations: and He shall
separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the
sheep from the goats: and He shall set the sheep on His right
hand, but the goats on the left._"--MATT. XXV. 31-33.

He, the speaker, will do this. It is the most stupendous claim that ever
fell from human lips. A young Jewish carpenter whose brief career, as He
Himself well knew, was just about to end in a violent and shameful
death, tells the little, fearful band which still clung to Him, that a
day is coming when before Him all the nations shall be gathered, and by
Him be separated as a shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats. In
the world's long history there is nothing like it.

That Jesus did rea